John Williams - Born in Australia in 1941, John Williams began learning the guitar from his father, founder of the Spanish Guitar Centre in London. In 1952, he was introduced to Segovia who took him on as a pupil. On Segovia's advice he entered the Academia Musicale Chigiana at Siena. Back in England, he studied piano and musical theory from 1956 to 1959. His London debut at the Wigmore Hall took place in 1958 and it will not be long before his name becomes a byword in England and abroad. Today, John Williams is one of the most skilled classical guitar players with an outstanding fluent technique. His repertoire varies from transcriptions of early lute music to works of South American composers and contemporaries. His music has taken a non-classical turn. He has ventured in Jazz Music playing works of Bach, Scarlatti, Villa-Lobos and Albéniz; and into the electric guitar and pop fields.